Multi-head CRF classifier for biomedical multi-class named entity recognition on Spanish clinical notes

The identification of medical concepts from clinical narratives has a large interest in the biomedical scientific community due to its importance in treatment improvements or drug development research. Biomedical named entity recognition (NER) in clinical texts is crucial for automated information extraction, facilitating patient record analysis, drug development, and medical research. Traditional approaches often focus on single-class NER tasks, yet recent advancements emphasize the necessity...